Generative AI is now integrated into most digital tasks, constantly offering assistance and encouraging users to think less. This pervasive offering exploits the "default effect," where people tend to accept preselected options rather than actively choose. Tech companies are leveraging this, similar to fast-food chains offering supersizing, to make reduced cognitive effort the easy path. This reliance on AI can lead to a rapid erosion of crucial human skills like judgment and decision-making. Studies show that offloading tasks to AI causes skills to diminish quickly, with the brain even starting to delete neural pathways for those skills.This is concerning because the skills most at risk, judgment and problem understanding, are precisely those needed to determine when and how to use AI itself. This creates a dangerous cycle where using AI makes us worse at discerning its appropriate use. Consequently, people using AI report higher confidence but lower accuracy, leading to widespread misinformation. The ubiquitous and unsolicited nature of AI suggestions alters our metacognitive threshold, making us less likely to recognize our own lack of knowledge.The author argues that technology firms, like they did with social media, are not incentivized to promote healthy AI consumption. Instead, leaders in organizations and schools must actively promote "human-in-the-lead" approaches. This means making harder thinking easier, not defaulting to not thinking by turning off automatic AI assistance. Organizations should require conscious decisions to use AI, allowing moments for reflection and better choices. The goal is to establish healthy thinking as the default, not the arduous alternative.